10 Best nonfiction books like Korea's Grievous War by Su-Kyoung Hwang

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Korea's Grievous War

By: Su-Kyoung Hwang

4.00

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1948, two years before Cold War tensions resulted in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea …

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1. Salt

By: Nayyirah Waheed

4.24

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

salt. a literary work. read more

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  • nonfiction
"i like myself. when i am myself."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"poetry. is the fire leaving my body."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"healing begins the moment you want it to"

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"she was a beautiful place to bare my legs."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

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2. Not Vanishing

By: Chrystos

4.49

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

Passionate, vital poetry by acclaimed Native American writer and activist Chrystos addresses self-e… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. En el bosque, bajo los cerezos en flor

By: Ango Sakaguchi , Susana Hayashi

3.64

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

«En el bosque, bajo los cerezos en flor», puede y debe considerarse, sin duda alguna, una obra maes… read more

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  • asia
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4. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

By: Neil Gaiman

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivat… read more

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5. M Is for Magic

By: Neil Gaiman , Teddy Kristiansen

3.63

Format: 353 pages,

Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaima… read more

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6. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

7. The Question of Palestine

By: None

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most re… read more

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8. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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9. Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

By: Neil Gaiman

4.02

Format: 365 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, G… read more

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"As we write we summon little demons."

-Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

"He was the boy with the book. Always and forever."

-Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

"It was love, I knew, and it tasted like champagne in my mind."

-Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

" Love will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure."

-Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

10. The Sleeper and the Spindle

By: Neil Gaiman , Chris Riddell

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and il… read more

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11. The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency, #1)

By: K. Arsenault Rivera

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Even gods can be slain.... The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach--bu… read more

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12. The Bird's Nest

By: Shirley Jackson

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with … read more

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13. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

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"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

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14. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

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15. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

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"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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16. Pelea de gallos

By: María Fernanda Ampuero

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a la… read more

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"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

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17. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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18. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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19. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

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20. The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

By: Tasha Suri

4.34

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

"Alluring, action-packed, and gut-wrenching," (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Oleander Swo… read more

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"Malini, she wanted to say. Wanted to shape that name in her mouth."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"How can you trust me not to ruin everything? Who else do I have to trust but you, Pri?"

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"You are like ink, Malini thought hopelessly. Ink, and all I want is to make poetry of you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

"I miss you, she thought, speaking to nothing in the quiet of her heart. I will always miss you."

-Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

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21. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

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22. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

4.25

Format: 486 pages, ebook

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more

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"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

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23. I'm Afraid of Men

By: Vivek Shraya

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

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24. Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality

By: Tanya Katerí Hernández

4.29

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconc… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Katerí Hernández's Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality book and Su-Kyoung Hwang's Korea's Grievous War

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

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"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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26. The World Cannot Give

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How far would you go after finding something–or someone–worthy of devotion?... Don't miss the no… read more

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27. Lesbian Choices

By: Claudia Card

3.15

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In this compellingly honest collection of her writings, renowned feminist philosopher Claudia Card … read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World

By: Claire Jean Kim

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? Are they subordinated comparably to Black … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

By: Myeongseok Kang

4.64

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK— Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, stories that g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Adjusting' seems to be the right word. Because once I entered the dorm, I realized, 'Ah, I guess this is how I should live from now."

-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

"However, some people—like B-Free—act as if they are judges at an audition, publicly passing judgment on idol groups' musical identities in spite of not having that authority."

-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

"Jin also injected the team with a sense of calm. There's steps to everything. Sometimes you have to climb slowly. And we knew that all the other people who succeeded climbed up slowly, little by litt…"

-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

"I still have no idea why, but we seriously only ever stuck with one another. And I think it must have been hard for other people to approach us, too. We were all clearly on edge because we were deter…"

-Myeongseok Kang, Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS

Cover of Korea's Grievous War by Su-Kyoung Hwang

30. Korea's Grievous War

By: Su-Kyoung Hwang

4.00

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1948, two years before Cold War tensions resulted in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea … read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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31. Si pudiera cambiarlos

By: Unknown

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Un relato transexual en el Japón antiguo. La insólita historia del siglo XII que fascinó al premio … read more

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  • asia

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Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Megan E. O'Keefe

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